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Chapter 273

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Chapter 273: Shadows Over Sicily

Elenas POV

The villa in Palermo overlooked the Tyrrhenian Sea like a fortress carved from ancient stone. Whitewashed walls glowed under the Sicilian sun. Bougainvillea spilled purple over every balcony. Olive groves stretched down the hills toward the city below where narrow streets twisted like veins through the old town. We had fled in the dead of night after the first strikes. Private jet. Fake passports. A new life whispered in the wind as we landed on this
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